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Charles Max Wood
Mark Erikson
Eric Berry

Special Guests: David Magalhães In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to David Magalhães about his experience with Elixir. David is a Java and PHP developer and learning Elixir was very easy and straightforward for him to pick up. They talk about how his Java background has affected how he learned Elixir, the first thing he noticed when he moved over to Elixir, and his article Phoenix with image upload to S3 in an API: Implementation and testing. They also touch on testing in Java, the Fakes3 gem, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

David’s history
What brought him to Elixir
Elixir is very straightforward
Pattern matching
Erlang
Java background
What has your experience been like coming from Java to Elixir?
First thing he noticed when moving
Had to change the way he did software
Worked with Prolog in University
Idea of accessors
Working as an Elixir professional
Phoenix with image upload to S3 in an API: Implementation and testing – blog post
Using S3
His approach for how people should start with S3
Focus for his article
Being able to create tests in Java
Testing features
Integration tests
TDD
Arc Library
Fakes3 gem
How do you handle the Fakes3 gem locally?
And much, much more!

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EMx 015: Elixir with David Magalhães